Graduated in Sociology and Linguistics. She currently lives in northern Norway and works as a language teacher. In 1996 she came first in her category in the Terminemos short story competition organized by the Unión Latina, the Spanish Consulate in Lima and El Comercio newspaper. In 1998 she came first in the El cuento de las 1000 palabras competition and in 2003 third in El cuento de las 2000 palabras, both organized by the magazine Caretas (Lima). In 2016 she was selected as writer-in-residence at Villa Sarkia, a residence for translators and writers in Finland. Her stories have appeared in a number of Peruvian, Mexican and Spanish electronic and printed magazines as well as in anthologies such as Antología de la Novísima Narrativa Breve Hispanoamericana 2006, organized and published by the Unión Latina, Nuevo Cuento Latinoamericano. Antología, published in Madrid by Julio Ortega, Les bonnes nouvelles de l'Amérique latine. Anthologie de la nouvelle latino-américaine contemporaine, published by Gallimard, and others.